Interview by Olaf Przybilla, BayreuthThe documentary "Wagner, Bayreuth and the rest of the world" can be seen in cinemas these days. In it, director Axel Brüggemann explores the world phenomenon Wagner - and its very local appearance. A conversation about self-help groups, the ideology of egoism and a butcher couple who explain music. .source site
An opera interim in the former Nazi congress hall? The idea is very popular in Nuremberg. The historian Bernd Windsheimer sees it differently. About the question of how to deal with the remnants of the Nazi megalomania and why culture is not good per se.Interview by Olaf Przybilla, NurembergNuremberg is looking for an interim location for the opera house. The inner courtyard of the Nazi congress hall, which has remained torso, is considered to be favored, with a majority in...
Monika Gruber has had enough of the stage. Today, Thursday, she is still playing at the Stadttheater Wels, her calendar is well filled with performances in Austria until the end of the year. But after December 31st in the Salzburg "Congress" it will be over: Wherever the ticket sales for 2022 are illuminated for the colleagues from the traveling cabaret folk, the Gruberin's website remains dark."My current stage program (which is aptly called "Without Words", d.Red.) is my last, "she...
Of course, the people of Nuremberg are simply too Protestant - the nasty ones say: too dumb - for proper self-marketing, as they know in (southern) Bavaria. Actually have everything, but don't know how to get it across, purely from a marketing point of view. Wear the fur inside, mimic the modest, get pimples with self-praise, sympathetic, but that's not the way to go with the Champions League. It is based in the south.Examples? There will be more and more....
Open detailed view"Mackie Messer - Brecht's Threepenny Film" is part of the retrospective with which Joachim Król is honored. (Photo: Stephan Pick / Hofer Filmtage)It's nice that there are still certainties in uncertain times. So you can look forward to the Hof Film Festival which take place as a face-to-face event in the cinemas of the Franconian metropolis. In addition, a digital version is offered in which some of the films can be streamed from any location - even seven...
"Jazz East-West" and "Voices Catching" - when it comes to jazz festivals, Nuremberg has a long tradition. With "NewJazz" Since 2013 you have one that has been assigned the attributes "young", "fresh" and "innovative" right from the start. The guitarist Frank Wuppinger and the bassist Marco Kühl with theirs Nuremberg Jazz Musicians Association launched the whole thing with the declared intention of gaining a larger and younger audience for jazz and to make Nuremberg an international location in the festival...
"Nobody needs pictures during this time." Paul Roloff was under no great illusions in 1920. Nevertheless, a year later he founded "Die Welle" in Prien with other painters. The members of the artists' association were fed up with seeing their pictures and sculptures drown in colorful mass exhibitions in Munich. Perhaps, so the hope of the group, the works, presented exclusively, could be better sold in the country. After all, there were tourists at Chiemsee back then. A mistake, as...
A commission from the city of Nuremberg has spoken out in favor of returning to the traditional Richard-Wagner-Platz in another location after the opera house interim. Only the city council representative of the so-called Politbande voted on Friday not only to accommodate the alternative venue on the former Nazi party rally grounds, but also to move the State Theater from the center to the south of the city. After numerous alternative locations were recently debated, a city council majority is...
Horrific sums are in circulation. Some speak of 350 million euros that the general renovation of the Nuremberg Opera House will cost, others of 500, and still others of 800 million euros. Others, on the other hand, get upset about such numbers, as they are mainly based on comparisons with reference houses - after all, the concrete planning in Nuremberg has not even begun. But nobody denies that the renovation costs are likely to be staggering. Why actually? A tour...
Horrific sums are in circulation. Some speak of 350 million euros that the general renovation of the Nuremberg Opera House will cost, others of 500, and still others of 800 million euros. Others, on the other hand, get upset about such numbers, as they are mainly based on comparisons with reference houses - after all, the concrete planning in Nuremberg has not even begun. But nobody denies that the renovation costs are likely to be staggering. Why actually? A tour...
